Evariste Richer | Fool’s Gold

On Friday, May 3rd, Parisian-based artist Evariste Richer opens Fool’s Gold, a curious show meant to entice and allure, exhibited at the now one-year-old Emmanuel Barbault gallery in Manhattan’s Bowery. For all those art-trivia buffs out there, Keith Haring used to live and work in the space circa 1982.

Utilizing pyrite, the mineral after which the exhibition has been eponymously named, Richer tackles appearances, desires and preconceptions to harness the fool’s gold’s shine and confront art’s monopoly on the eye. Is it a sham? A diversion? Will we ever know?